Boom Collisions on Twitter

An interesting technology recently came to our attention. The Horsch BoomSight detects potential obstacles and as the sprayer passes it raises the boom to avoid the impact. We figured it was worthy of a tweet, which read:

Now, when you tweet something, you hope it has some impact. That’s usually a few “likes”, maybe a few “retweets” and if you’re lucky someone may take the time to write a response. We received the following response:

@WcropW:
Yes, often bumping into kangaroos as they hop out of my crop.
Got to be quick to lift boom above them!

@Spray_Guy:
Still can’t decide if that’s a joke or not, but it certainly made me laugh.

In less than 48 hours, that tweet earned more than 10,000 impressions as the Twitterverse shared all. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of that thread: snarky responses, pictures, videos and all. We don’t know if there’s any educational value, but it’s certainly fun and surprising. No one wrote “fencepost” or “tree”. They covered everything else, though.

About The Author

Jason has been the OMAFRA Application Technology Specialist since 2008. He has a BSc (Biopsychology - Mt. Allison), an MSc (Plant Science - York) and a PhD (Plant Cell Physiology - Guelph). Jason is interested in improving the efficiency & efficacy of agricultural pesticide applications, he is the author of the Airblast101 Handbook and he runs slowly.